If abortion raises a many ethical questions, I believe that we should start at addressing the people who also chose to abort solely off of the fact that their child can now test positive for Down Syndrome, Huntington's Disease, Learning disorders, ect. before they are born. The families, a lot of the time, were most likely planning to have a child in a financially stable relationship, assumed by the fact that they are paying for Embryonic Genetic Testing. This is the problem here, in my opinion. It seems extra unfair that an expecting family can just abort a child based off of the fact that they are not a perfect human being through various embryonic testing. With that being said, the parents can be tested for genetic disorders as well - and chose to have the "healthy" genes passed on to a potentially unrelated person to have the child - who will that child call mom or dad? I understand that most of the time in an abortion, the parents decide that they can't financially support a child or can't place on in their life at the time - in the dramatic Lifetime Movies on TV anyway. Which for some reason, I don't feel as strongly about - the part that gets me is that parents who use genetic testing are getting greedy, in my opinion. Event hough, they may just want the healthy, beautiful life like a "normal" child, for their baby - but unless the parents have experienced Down Syndrome, for example, who's to say that they don't fulfill a just as happy of a life as any other kid? It's almost as if they just don't want to try a little extra harder to provide for a child with potentially an "un picturesque" life.
To understand these conflicts, I think that science needs to stop flashing how fancy it can make all of our lives, we are just humans at the end of the day! Our species got along great without genetic testing, and with it humans may just turn into evolutionary machines - but what is perfect? What if we become too good? Or something slips and there is a large disease outbreak? Science is fantastic, and so is evolution , and even though they go hand in hand - I believe that the genetic testing part should leave reproduction alone.
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